P-04-398 Campaign for a Welsh Animal Offenders Register

Please sign in
support of a ’Animal Offenders Register’, a central
Welsh database which will consist of name, address and convictions
of people who have been convicted of any form of animal cruelty and
abuse within Wales. Breeders / sellers of animals will
be required to check this central database before allowing any
animal they own / bred to go to a prospective owner / new
home; if it is found that someone
who has been convicted of animal cruelty or abuse has an animal the
supplier / breeder will be held liable and prosecuted. At the moment there is no law to
stop anyone who has been convicted of animal cruelty from moving a
few miles up the road and then obtaining another animal to inflict
further abuse on.
Stricter laws need to be implemented to help protect animals,
heavier fines and longer prison sentences as well as an Animal
Offenders Register.

New
York City and various states in the USA have already implemented
this law, what is there to stop Wales taking the lead in the United
Kingdom? You’ve
heard of Sarah’s Law, designed to keep sex offenders from
striking again. Now we
hope for a law created in the hope of preventing animal abusers
from inflicting more cruelty, or moving on to human victims.
Research has shown that
there is a very strong correlation between animal abuse and
domestic violence. Many
murderers start out by torturing animals, and we could end up also
protecting the lives of people.